Join your fellow community members at the West Acton Citizens' Library for a lively book discussion led by our Librarians. Limited copies of the book in multiple formats will be available at the West Acton branch. First come, first serve. All are welcome!

This month's book is: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi's acclaimed 2020 novel about Gifty, a Ghanaian-American neuroscience PhD student at Stanford, who studies addiction and depression while grappling with her family's history of trauma, faith, and loss, particularly her brother's opioid addiction and her mother's severe depression. The book explores the tension between science and faith, the immigrant experience, and the search for meaning in suffering, following Gifty as she tries to understand her family's pain through her research and memories of her childhood in Alabama. 

Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities are available upon request by emailing WACL@actonma.gov. Please note that the West Acton Citizens’ Library has limited accessibility. More accessible programs are offered at the Acton Memorial Library.